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Building Healthy Communities: Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development

This event discusses the importance of indicators and criteria for promoting healthy and sustainable urban development. It highlights the need for integrating health into all policies and the lack of competences and tools to support this. Various sets of indicators are identified to monitor changes, progress, and the impact of different policies.

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Building Healthy Communities: Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development

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  1. Building Healthy Communities Indicators and Criteria for a Healthy Sustainable Urban Development SETTING THE SCENE Bacau 1 October 2010 Antonella Cardone BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  2. WP 3: Updating the exchange in Belfast 9:00 – 11:00 • Antonella Cardone, Brief recap of the work done on indicators and criteria • Gabriela Neagu, The diagnosis of life quality-fundamental programme of ICCV • Erica Ison, BHC toolkit at work: the Belfast experience • Debate and further steps BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  3. Why Healthy Sustainable Urban Development Or why BHC • Four out of five European citizens live in urban areas • Quality of life, well-being and health is directly influenced by the state of: - the urban environment, - economic and - social factors • Improving quality of life and good health and reducing Health Inequalities is the EU major goal BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  4. Why Healthy Sustainable Urban Development • Health needs to be integrated into all policies– DG SANCO, DG REGIO, WHO, Council of Europe, EU Countries • Cities are aware of the importance of health and quality of life in urban regeneration and development • There is a clear lack of competences and tools to support healthy sustainable urban development BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  5. Set of Indicators Identified ECHI – European Community Health Indicators WHO – EURO Healthy Cities Indicators The Sustainable Seattle: Indicators of a Sustainable Community The headline indicators in the UK sustainable development strategy HELI – Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (WHO-UNEP) The Millennium Development Goals and Habitat Agenda Urban Indicators BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  6. Why Indicators and Criteria • Given that: • Health needs to be integrated into all policies • Coordinated action is needed among the EU, the national, the regional and the local level /CITY • There is a need for a common understanding at different levels and in various contexts of what is: • Health • Quality of life • Sustainable urban development BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  7. Why Indicators and Criteria • And a need to inform the general public and to help decision makers to monitor: • changes • progress • new actions And to compare the impact of different policies even in different countries • Those needs are addressed through: • Setting criteria and • identifying indicators BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  8. What we did so far: • Workshop 1 in Lodz in June 2009 • Common definition of indicators • Set of key indicators • Set of core indicators • Exchange in Belfast with Health Impact Assessment Specialist • Toolkit on how to identify and monitor indicators • LAP include indicators (?) BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  9. What next ? BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

  10. Building Healthy Communities Thank you Antonella Cardone a.cardone@uniterzosettore.it BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Thematic Network and Co-financed by the URBACT II Programme City of Turin Urban Regeneration and Development Sector in collaboration with QeC - ERAN

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